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DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 



years edited and much enlarged by Dr. J. M. Coulter and Dr. C. R. Barnes 

 of Indiana, and Dr. J. C. Arthur of the New York experimental station. 



To these editors we are indebted for permission to procure a copy of a plate 

 illustrating our botanical laboratory and museum. 



I make the following brief quotations from the magazine for Dec, 1885: 



" The first laboratory established was that at the botanic gardens of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, which was opened in 1872. The microscopes used are Zeiss (1 large stand, 3 No. 

 VI), Verick (12), Leitz (3), Wales (1), Ross (1), with plenty of accessory apparatus. Taken 

 as a whole the botanical laboratories of Harvard University ai'e the most extensive and 

 important in the country." 



The magazine gives some account of the botanical laboratories of twelve 

 prominent "institutions of learning," viz.: Harvard, Cornell, University of 

 Pennsylvania, Illinois University, Michigan Agricultural College, the University 

 of Michigan, Iowa Agricultural College, Wabash College, Purdue University,. 

 University of Wisconsin, University of Nebraska, Shaw School of Botau} at St. 

 Louis. 



BOTANICAL LABORATORY. 



" The botanical department of Michigan Agricultural College rejoices in the most im- 

 posing building especially erected for botanical instruction in the country. It is a mod- 

 ified Gothic, completed in 1880 at a cost of $6,000. The upper stories contain the bo- 

 tanical museum, very instructively aiTanged. [This is the only botanical museiim re- 

 ferred to in the article quoted. W. J. B.] 



" The laboratory on the first floor, also used as a lecture room, is 48x44 feet. It is 

 lighted from east and west, and with ground glass windows on the south. 



"The elementary course, with simple microscopes, permits most of the work to be 

 done outside the laboratory. Codington lenses with convenient supports are chiefly 

 used. The supply of compound microscopes is at present ample (27), and wdth funds 

 for the purchase or others as needed. 



